MONGOLIAN REPUBLIC

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1946, Page 7

MONGOLIAN REPUBLIC

SOVIET PRESSES FOR ENTRY TO UNO OPPOSITION FROM CHINA (Rec. 12.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 7. Delay “for a year or so” of consideration of the admittance of the Mongolian People’s Republic to the United Nations was suggested by the Chinese delegate, Dr. Shuhsi Hsu, at a meeting of the. membership committee of UNO. M. Krasnilnikov (Russia) strongly pressed Mongolia’s claims. The British, American, Australian, and Egyptian delegates emphasised the need for more information /on the question whether Mongolia was able to observe the charter’s provisions. The committee asked the* Mongolian Government to appoint an accredited representative in New York to supply the facts sought. Dr. Shuhsi said the Mongolian Republic had been part of China until recently and was known as Outer Mongolia. Independence had been granted by China, which therefore sincerely desired her entry into the United Nations, but felt that the suggested delay was advisable because hitherto Mongolia had not exchanged envoys with any nations, except, perhaps, the Soviet. By that neglect she had not given the members of the United Nations an opportunity to know her intimately or decide whether she was able to carry out the charter obligations. M. Krasnilnikov declared that the Mongolian Republic was young, independent, and democratic, and had contributed greatly the United Nations’ struggle against Fascist aggression, particularly against Japan. The committee decided that it was not within the scope of its terms of reference to investigate the pohtica nature of regimes of applicants, provided such regimes were not contrary to the aims of the United Nations. The main questions to which the committee would have to give answers were: (1) Whether the applicant was a peace-loving state; (21 whether the fact that the applicant state had not been recognised by a member of the United Nations or specific reasons stated by this member constituted an obstacle to the applicant’s admittance; (3) whether an existing dispute between the &PP II cant and a member of the United Nations constituted an obstacle loi admittance.